Ed Paulson is the president of The Paulson Group, a Lisle, IL based entrepreneurship, marketing, sales and business management consulting and training company. He is dedicated to helping businesses, their employees and other stakeholders achieve as much financial and personal reward from their work as possible.
His latest book is "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting Your Own Business, Fifth Edition" (Penguin/Alpha) and the timing couldn't be better for the latest edition of this international best-seller that is aimed at helping people determine their own working destiny by becoming their own boss. He gives several entrepreneurship and small to medium size business talks and seminars designed to help business managers and owners get successfully started and then manage their new ventures to success.
His "Inside Cisco: The Real Story of Sustained M&A Growth" (Jon Wiley and Sons, Inc.) book takes a detailed look at Cisco Systems' revenue enhancing acquisition practices. This book has been positively reviewed by readers from within the M&A industry including those who know the Cisco acquisition process. Ed gives a talk and a seminar that are designed to help companies make the most out of their merger and acquisition possibilities.
Ed is the author of 17 published books including "The Technology M&A Guidebook" (John Wiley and Sons) as well as numerous technology-business related articles. He is also the content developer and presenter of several video series on Quicken, QuickBooks, Windows 95 and Microsoft Proxy Server. His books have been translated into several foreign languages including Spanish, Russian and Chinese.
Ed has provided services for such notable companies as Motorola, IBM, Tandem, Cellular One, Southwestern Bell, The State of Texas, AMP Packaging, The Lower Colorado River Authority, Catapult Software Training, Productivity Point, CompUSA, ProSoft, Smith Bucklin and Associates, Team Floral, Partner2Learn and others.
Ed holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin (1990) along with undergraduate (1976) and graduate (1978) degrees in engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was a registered Texas Professional Engineer (PE), Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) and Charter CorelDRAW Certified Instructor. He is a Visiting Professor of Business at DePaul University and is currently completing his Ph.D. at Indiana State University. His research topic is related to the proper matching of personnel to tasks in information technology project management environments.
His professional background spans over 25 years and includes working with or for such notable companies as IBM, Wang Laboratories, Seagate Technology, Plantronics, DSI ExpressNet (formerly DAVID Systems) and Telenova, Inc. He spent ten years with startup companies in Silicon Valley and another ten years starting running and selling his own company in Austin, Texas. His experience includes executive level management, marketing management, sales management, computer hardware design and production, software programming, telecommunications management and data communications management. He was nominated for 1994 Austin Entrepreneur Of The Year and was included in the 1993 WorldWide Who's Who Platinum Edition.
Ed specializes in understanding the mind of business managers and owners. He straddles the chasm that exists between business, financial and technical managers. Fluent in financial, marketing, sales and technology "geek", Ed effectively translates between these critically important business departments fostering communication and cooperation, avoiding costly mistakes. His detailed understanding of the financial, marketing, sales, management and technology sides of business combined with his theatrical background make his presentations thought provoking, informative and lively, though sometimes unconventional. Ed will customize presentations to meet specific client objectives as needed with standard presentations also available. Interested parties are strongly encouraged to contact him directly regarding their specific speaking and training needs. Brainstorming is welcome! (Email Ed Paulson: author@edpaulson.com )
His major international speaking engagements include serving as the Master of Ceremonies (MC) for a three-day Motorola Internet and Networking Group conference held on the island country of Malta. Attendees were from various countries in West and East Europe, the Middle East and Africa and included internal Motorola salespeople along with their customers. Duties not only included the standard MC role of tying the conference topics together, but also that of providing an industry expert's perspective on the networking topics presented. Special technology/business workshops were designed and managed by Mr. Paulson that successfully met very specific client learning objectives.
Ed's extensive European business and personal travel experience makes him an ideal host for international events of this type. He is fluent in English, conversational in German and French and functional in Spanish. He lived in Germany for one year, where he learned his German, and has traveled repeatedly to Europe since the early 1970s.
Ed's keynote speeches can be modified to address the objectives of the client organization. Here are a few keynote topics for client consideration:
Ed has trained thousands of people on a wide array of technology and business topics. Here is a partial listing of courses that Ed has taught which can be customize to meet a specific client's learning objectives.
Ed's seminar presentation style is interactive, informative yet demanding. He is not an "easy" instructor in that he believes that students are best served when they learn on their own, or in groups, under Ed's guidance. Clearly defined learning objectives are created before all seminar programs and student progress toward those objectives is assessed throughout the seminar. You and your employees will learn what you came to learn at one of Ed's seminars. And have some fun along the way.
Do you have a nagging problem that just doesn't seem to go away? Is this problem costing you time, money and focus? Even worse, is it costing you customers? Are your people not working up to your expectations? Are YOU not working up to your own expectations?
Have some unexpected, and often serious, events happened of late that made you wish you had someone to whom you could turn for help? Now you do. Ed Paulson, The Business Therapist provides consulting services to select clients who can benefit from what Ed has to offer.
Here are a few areas where Ed can help a business get back on track toward meeting its full potential:
With over 20 years of Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas entrepreneurial and executive management experience at your service, you don't have to make the mistakes that others have made. Let Ed help you dodge those dangerous areas and maximize your chances of completely fulfilling your business objectives and dreams.
Entrepreneurship/Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)
Personal Finance
General Consumer Interest - Y2k/Year 2000
Technology and Software
| Managing Personal Finance with Quicken | 1 tape | Learnkey (1999) | No CD-ROM |
| Managing Your Business with QuickBooks Pro | 3 tapes | Learnkey (1999) | No CD-ROM |
| MS Proxy Server 2.0 Certification | 2 tapes | Learnkey (1998) | Possible CD-ROM |
| Windows 95 Certification Series | 4 tapes | Learnkey (1996) | CD-ROM also |
Mr. Paulson is represented by Susan Barry of the The Barry-Swayne Agency Literary Management. She can be contacted at (845) 424-2448 * Email: sbarry@swayneagency.com.
Ed Paulson
P.O. Box 3026
Lisle, IL 60532
(630) 960-3299 [phone]
E-mail: author@edpaulson.com
Web Site: www.edpaulson.com